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Hooray for writerly milestones.
Today I got my first rejection letter from a literary journal.
I am kind of bummed about it, honestly, because rejection: never a fun and fuzzy experience! However, I am keeping a few things in mind:
- The work that I sent in was not my best by any stretch of the imagination. The piece I was going to submit turned out to be a thousand words too long, so I substituted another story that basically fit the guidelines but was written when I was, um, seventeen. (A++ life choice, self!) If I'd submitted something I thought was fantastic I would feel a whole lot worse about this.
- Nobody gets accepted the first time they send something out. Nobody.
- At least I actually tried. <--- this bit always feels like it should be said in my mother's voice
- Dude, it's my first rejection letter! The first in a LONG, GLORIOUS LINE OF REJECTION LETTERS! My career as a writer, with all the crippling disappointment that entails, has finally begun. \o/
I am kind of bummed about it, honestly, because rejection: never a fun and fuzzy experience! However, I am keeping a few things in mind:
- The work that I sent in was not my best by any stretch of the imagination. The piece I was going to submit turned out to be a thousand words too long, so I substituted another story that basically fit the guidelines but was written when I was, um, seventeen. (A++ life choice, self!) If I'd submitted something I thought was fantastic I would feel a whole lot worse about this.
- Nobody gets accepted the first time they send something out. Nobody.
- At least I actually tried. <--- this bit always feels like it should be said in my mother's voice
- Dude, it's my first rejection letter! The first in a LONG, GLORIOUS LINE OF REJECTION LETTERS! My career as a writer, with all the crippling disappointment that entails, has finally begun. \o/